Worried about having been hacked

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, James
Allsopp<jamesaallsopp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've a Fedora core 10 system which spends a lot of the time connected
> directly to the internet, with a static ip. The only external ports open
> are 80 and 22. SSH only allows access to one non-root user via an rsa
> key. I'm using an IPtables script from
>
>> http://iptables-tutorial.frozentux.net/iptables-tutorial.html
>
> However, I normally get my logs e-mailed to an external account and
> they're not getting to me. I'm not sure if they've not been sent or my
> logs are being altered and hidden. How do I diagnose this problem, and
> in general look for security incursions. I'm thinking of leaving
> wireshark running on the external ethernet card and see what happens.
>
> Thanks, any advice much appreciated.
> Jim
>

Have you checked your Spam folder on the receiving email account?
Email sent through the mail command tends to get rated very poorly by
spam filters.

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